These misguided kids need to learn some real critical thinking skills. (Photo: CPR) 'A' Is for Agitation: What's Really Going on in Jefferson County Schools by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2014 There's a big battle brewing in the Jefferson County, Colorado, school system. The manufactured controversy over a proposed curriculum review is generating national... Read More

The Left's dark money managers: Meet Philip Gara LaMarche by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2014 Philip Gara LaMarche is a secretive political operative who funnels billions of dollars from undisclosed donors to nonprofits and astroturf groups. But you won't hear unhinged Harry Reid railing Queegishly about him on the Senate floor. Why? Here's why:... Read More

Two highly anticipated rulings will come down in about 15 minutes on the Hobby Lobby/Obamacare mandate case and the union home health care provider coercion scheme in Harris v. Quinn. Background reading from our previous reporting/coverage on both issues: Good news: Supreme Court agrees to hear Harris v. Quinn (families battling SEIU over thuggish home... Read More

Back in June, I reminded you about the case of Harris v. Quinn -- the class-action lawsuit challenging Illinois Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn’s SEIU-pandering executive order to allow union recruiters into the homes of families who provide in-residence care for their developmentally disabled loved ones. The corruptocrats in Illinois violated the privacy of home care... Read More

Well, I hate to say I told you so, but... The very latest from the East Coast/Gulf Coast port strike scene is that the International Longshoremen's Association has walked out of federal mediation talks. According to Joe Bonney of the Journal of Commerce, "ILA walked out of NY-NJ local contract talks today, objecting to proposed... Read More

Remember Karen Lewis? She's Chicago thuggery personified. I introduced you to her last September when she spearheaded the abandonment of 350,000 schoolchildren over merit-based pay, teacher evaluations, and a 16 percent pay raise: Well, that trash mouth is baaaaack. Intrepid Kyle Olson of EAGNews.com caught Lewis joking about labor leaders who seriously contemplated killing the... Read More

Scroll down for latest updates... We're two days away from the long-planned East/Gulf Coast port strike. My most recent column on the Big Labor agitation exposed the archaic work practices and corrupt waterfront rackets at issue. Here's the very latest: Florida's Gov. Rick Scott is calling on President Obama to intervene: The

As I've been reporting over the last year (see full archive links below), the Big Labor and Occupy goons have long been agitating to shut down the nation's ports. The "Days of Rage" opened in July and September 2011 in Longview, Wa., where ILWU leaders stormed the port, sabotaged rail lines, kidnapped guards, and dumped... Read More

This is small business owner Clint Tarver of Lansing, Michigan. He was caught in the violent chaos that erupted when union thugs attacked the Americans for Prosperity tent on the capitol grounds yesterday during the right-to-work debate. His hot dog stand was destroyed. Velvet Hammer reports that the thugs shouted "Uncle Tom" and "nigger" at... Read More

Yesterday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed right-to-work legislation into law. The death threats against him are pouring in. The Left is blaming the conservative victims of union violence, as usual. The progressive climate of hate is always our fault. Today's column sets the Democrats' call for blood in the context of Obama-era union violence and... Read More

Photo source: ImagesofVegas.com Photo source: Venetian Las Vegas Photo source: @michellemalkin These are pictures of the amazing Salute Our Troops event from the Venetian/Palazzo last weekend. I'll tell you more about it in a moment. But first, a little about the place. The workforce at Sheldon Adelson's Venetian/Palazzo resort and casino in Las Vegas is... Read More

New tone, same as the old tone, part 999,999,999. 1."Watch as an individual in a hard hat throws an object at Michigan State Police Troopers trying to retrieve a supporter of the Freedom to Work legislation from the hostile crowd." 2. "Union thug cursing and threatening just before they rushed & tore down the tent."... Read More

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson Right to Work laws protect the right of employees to choose for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union. Longtime readers of my work know that I've been... Read More

Hey, Fat Cat Unions: Pay Your "Fair Share" by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Message for wealth-bashing millionaire actor Ed Asner: Man up and take responsibility for lying to America's schoolchildren. Confronted by a producer for Fox News Channel's "The Sean Hannity Show" this week, the left-wing celebrity claimed he couldn't remember "a thing... Read More

Eight days and billions of dollars in lost trade later, the L.A./Long Beach port strike has come to an end. After a day of federal mediation, the ILWU clerical workers agreed to a tentative settlement. Kabuki. As attentive readers already know, outsourcing was a phony Big Labor claim. ILWU Local 63-OCU President John Fageaux thanked... Read More

Here's the latest update on Big Labor's long-planned manufactured chaos at our West Coast ports. The two sides are headed toward federal mediation after 8 days of ILWU-sponsored havoc on the economy: The shutdown is costing $1 billion a day in lost wages and trade while empty ships pile up. The striking union clerk workers

In case you missed it last week during the holiday, I discussed the port strike chaos on the Cavuto show and pointed out that shippers were redirecting traffic to Mexico. As the L.A./Long Beach port strike drags on this week, southern California is losing even more business. I am going to continue to post and... Read More

Gee, maybe people are finally paying attention. After warning of the catastrophic consequences of the long-planned Big Labor chaos at our nation's ports for more than a year, I'm finally not the only one talking about it. As I told you yesterday, the ILWU clerks' union brought L.A.'s busiest pier to a standstill. And now,... Read More

Here's the latest development in the manufactured Big Labor chaos at our ports. Loyal readers know I've been tracking the union-fomented, Occupy-supported agitation on the East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf Coast over the past year. Today, striking clerks shut down the busiest Port of Los Angeles pier: The Maersk shipping line company sent out... Read More

Wal-Mart vs. the Mob by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Black Friday always brings out the worst: long lines, short tempers and random outbreaks of shoppers' rage. This year, Big Labor will ratchet up the Strikesgiving tension with professional grievance-mongers and workers picketing at 1,000 Wal-Mart stores nationwide. Attention, Wal-Mart directors: Mob appeasement never... Read More

SEIU and friends are causing havoc across the country for Thanksgiving. This is what Obama's Big Labor-endorsed "revenge" looks like.

I've been reporting since September on the potentially catastrophic port strike in the works, and have been tracking the Occupy-supported and manufactured chaos at our ports for the past year. Things are about to come to a head. On the West Coast: The Port of Portland (Oregon) is bracing for a strike by longshore workers... Read More

Via Twitchy, read about Alabama TV station WAFF's report on non-union utility crews who traveled from the South to help restore power to Hurricane Sandy victims -- only to be turned away because they were non-union. Update: Denials. Naturally. More details from WAFF: Don't believe it could happen? Think again. First, a comment from a... Read More

If CTU leader and "social justice" thug Karen Lewis is happy and union activists are cheering, you know it's bad news for everyone else. As you've no doubt heard, school is back in session in Chicago after a week of child abandonment. Left-wing Democracy Now reported: "On Tuesday, 800 delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union... Read More

I told you last week about the possibility of a potentially ruinous longshoremen's strike at East Coast and Gulf ports this month. As usual, Big Labor refuses to get with the 21st century and adopt much-needed productivity and efficiency rules changes. Talks resumed today. But as the strike deadline -- Sept. 30 -- closes in,... Read More